L’IRA non ha colpito la Scozia “per principio” | I repubblicani irlandesi si rifiutarono di bombardare la Scozia perché è una “nazione celtica” con una storia simile di oppressione inglese, secondo una spia britannica infiltrata nello Sinn Fein
https://www.thetimes.com/article/ira-did-not-hit-scotland-on-principle-hwlmdtjtj
di 1DarkStarryNight
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>with a similar history of English oppression
You’d think someone in the ra would have read a history book. Scotland were partners hand in hand with England. The idea they were some conquered people is pure revisionism.
A terrorist organisation with principles.
they’re in for a nasty surprise when they find out what Ireland has done to Scotland and vice versa
What else did Gerry… sorry, the British spy say ?
Also supporters in Scotland helping with supply, transport, accommodation, safe houses and much more.
Didn’t stop them from blowing up their own though did it.
Funny how they were happy to “hit” Ireland…
Terrible headline. The IRA didn’t hit Scotland because:
1.) There was a level of sympathy for the cause there (as a result of the huge proportion of Irish diaspora from Ulster, especially in Glasgow, but also Edinburgh) and attacks would have undermined that. London is the capital of the UK, if they wanted to attack Britain it would have to be there, in spite of the Irish diaspora.
2.) Not everywhere in England was hit; attacks weren’t random, they were assassination attempts or hits on political and economic infrastructure. The goal was to create shock in Britain that wasn’t being acheived by attacks in the North; it had become a warzone and Brits could treat it as conflict away from home. There wasn’t a whole on in Scotland they could hit that they felt could move the needle.
“Celtic nations” might have been a useful rhetorical device but thats as far is it really went.
They never hear about the prod Scot settlers, who have effectively socially ruined the North for generations